Best. Movie. Credits. Ever. I like how they roll their cars over the Citroen DS. I bet you could do the same thing on a Mercedes CLS.
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Madcap 70’s car chase
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Vinyl Topped Wagon
Don’t have enough room in the trunk of your crusty Impala? Time for a slick conversion. American ingenuity at its finest.
Aston Martin Station Wagon
Run, don’t walk, to Eberhard Thiesen Automobile Raritaten to pickup the sweet Roos Engineering Aston Martin Lagonda shooting break conversion. It’s a steal at only $270k. Sure, it ain’t a DB9, but with all that room in the boot you’ll be able to carry plenty of cases of Busch Light from Costco, and do it in style. Act now, supplies are limited to… one.
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Corvette Z06 vs Volvo 240
Truth About Cars finds a space in his heart for older cars that new cars just don’t make.
An old car that is well kept through the years shows a level of loyalty and priority that is rare in this day and age. I always enjoy meeting these folks in my travels and should I pick up their car at a sale, I make sure they end up in a good home.
OK Go and their 240
One of the benefits of working at MTV was the free music. Every few months someone in the music department would throw a bunch of promotional CDs in a box and leave it in the hallway for us to pickover. I managed to pick up music from The Used
John Stewart’s $10 Million Volvo POS
On the Daily Show last night John Stewart talked the Supreme Court and how the banks have been screwing us. To demonstrate, he forms a corporation out of himself and puts an asset up for collateral for $1,000,000. The asset? A “1984 Volvo station wagon with a Pioneer tape deck.” Then, through the magic of creative corporate accounting practices, he winds up with this gorgeous $10,000,000 flying brick. Sweet!
Forward to 6:00 for the funny:
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UPDATE: The owner of the original photo has been found! Nayak Polissar looks to be the original owner of “Greenie”, a 1979 DL with over 300k on the odometer.
From the Nayak posts to NWAutos in Seattle:
“I LOVE MY CAR BECAUSE … I have so many fond memories associated with it, and because it has served me so reliably for 30 years and over 300,000 miles. When it was very new, I chauffeured a great world leader around Seattle for several days. It has been on hundreds of fun outings all over the West. We have hauled all kinds of stuff and so many people. It starts in an instant and it has rarely needed repairs. It’s alive!”
After seeing it on The Daily Show, he states:
“Greenie has now served amusement and joy to millions of Stewart’s fans and viewers — in addition to the 300,000-plus miles of service to our family and community. I was happy that Stewart showed Greenie flying toward ‘auto heaven.’ But that won’t happen before many more miles with our family.” Yeah!
Homecoming Halloween Horror
When the story begins “I was only 15 at the time so of course i wasn’t legal to drive, but i drove anyways” you know it’s not going to end well. From car-accidents.com comes the story of an out-of-control 1989 240, flipping, rolling and sliding on its roof. As usual, the driver lived to see another day.
CarCast Talks Olde Volvo
Ron Livingston will live forever in my heart as Peter Gibbons from the movie “Office Space“. Turns out, his first car was a brick. Specifically a Volvo 122. That didn’t run.
He and Adam Carolla talk Volvos and Chevettes on this post/podcast from CarCast.
Rolling Rocks
According to commenters on the news site where this footage was posted, this particular stretch of road on route 129 in Tennessee is very curvy. But I don’t think that’s any excuse for this FAIL. If you’re coming around a sharp curve and “wondering what the heck the police and news crews are doing at that moment” your best bet would be to proceed with caution and slow down. Instead our driver notices the massive rock slide blocking the road only at the last minute, when it’s too late.
Or maybe he thought he was Luke Duke and could just jump the rocks with a good “Yee Haw!”
Installing Front Door Speakers
When I first bought the brick I tossed the cardboard speakers and plugged in a cheap set of Kenwoods. They never fit quite right, as the holes in the speaker panel don’t align with the holes in the speaker. They were only able to attach to the door panel, as the screws didn’t match the holes in the sheet metal. I mounted them with only 2 screws each and had crappy sound out of the crappy deck.
When I got a new deck I went through the torturous process of rewiring all 4 speakers. I pulled the door panels out, sound-proofed with RAAMat and closed-cell foam and installed a wooden frame for the speaker.
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